What A Thief Can't Steal

Frozen Time

Yes, i did forget about this book, anyways here you go

Rose's POV:

"T-this place is... huge!" I frantically panted, running along from a group of Bronzong.

"I wouldn't say it's hospitable though..." Celsus screamed as he fluttered along.

"It feels... kinda cold..." Claire muttered.

We had finally arrived at our main destination for this expedition... Temporal Tower... Unlike the Temporal Tower that was portrayed in illustrations on books about legends, this one seemed drastically different. However, it may be because of what Lapras had told us about the Temporal Tower having changed a lot.

The tower gleaned a sky blue color. Fragmented now into different floating segments held together by webs of ice, the tower creaked ominously as hailstones entered and exited through its almost visible skeleton.

Inside the tower, however, was an entirely different environment compared to its exterior. Once inside, we saw that there was little to no sight of the sky despite the fact that the tower seemed half-wrecked from the outside. Inside the tower, there was a dark atmosphere present. The floor was coated with thick ice, as of it lay frozen in the many years it was unvisited. The floors of the tower all seemed like a frozen piece of ground suspended in mid-air, looking down from the non-floor areas, there was no evidence that previous floors ever existed as we saw only murky darkness for as deep it could get.

"Hey!" I groaned as I skidded across the icy floor, "S-stop, I think I- Umph!"

I looked up and much to my horror, I had accidentally collided into yet another sleeping Bronzong. The angered bell awoke from its slumber and began to float, chasing us down.

Before it could get to us, though... A huge comet slammed down towards it, knocking it out.

"Everybody okay?" Sandra panted, exhausted from the recoil of her Draco Meteor.

We all nodded in silence, just glad that the Bronzong was defeated. Our short-lived peace was interrupted when we heard the metallic scraping of the Bronzong that was still after us.

I tried launching Psychic, but it didn't do much, considering that the bronze bells had the type advantage. Angered by my attempt, one began to spin as it charged at me with Gyro Ball.

"Ugh..." I coughed as I rolled through the sheet of ice.

My body slid through the sheet of ice until I felt it fall. My mind snapped open, being aware that I was about to fall into eternal darkness. Desperate, I climbed on to the edge of the ice sheet.

"Go and help Rose! I'll take care of this... Please..." I heard Claire call.

"Huh? Claire?" Sandra weakly muttered, "Are you sure you can manage? You might get hurt! These Bronzong aren't exactly weak..."

"Just do it!" Claire commanded, "I'll take care of this... I hope..."

I began to hear the whipping of Sandra's wings and the faint buzzing of Celsus's as I could feel them approach me.

"Okay... Trust me on this one... Just let go," I heard Sandra say.

"What? Did you just tell me to let go?" I returned with a nervous laugh.